Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients
This list of honorary degree recipients is sortable by last name, year conferred, and degree type. Click on the title of the column to sort the list by that particular content.
We have added the honorary degree citations for some of our recipients. Click on the Citation images, where shown, to read them.
| Last name | First name |
Year |
Degree | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Willard Deming | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsumoto | Shigeharu | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ellison | Ralph Waldo | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Gordon | Julia Weber | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Weisenfeld | Allan | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Boocock | Philip Milledoler Brett | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rogosin | Israel | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Nannes | Caspar | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Coffey | Katherine Frances | 1966 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| L'Hommedieu | Paige D. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Caldwell | William Anthony | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Nagel | Ernest | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bowen | Catherine Drinker | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| White | Katharine Elkus | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Florence Price | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Burke | Kenneth | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Still | Timothy | 1968 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Vermeule | Emily Dickinson Townsend | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smyth | Henry DeWolf | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Henry | 1969 | Doctor of Music | |
| Alampi | Philip | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brée | Germaine | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Baskin | Leonard | 1969 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wheeler | John Archibald | 1969 | Doctor of Science | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws |
